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Nope, an anagram is quite different from what I'm talking about. For instance, when rotating the word "take", the only possible strings are: take aket keta etak take Some possible anagrams/unique orderings of "take" are: tkae atke aetk ekat aekt atek Now, those anagrams aren't actually English words, but you can see how it's not possible to get those arrangements just by rotation. If you were to take the word "regally", there's no way to rotate it such that you can get "gallery", even though "gallery" is an anagram of "regally": regally egallyr gallyre allyreg llyrega lyregal lyregall yregall regally
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So a question I posed a long time ago to some people here was this: The word "ate" is interesting, because under string rotation it is always a valid English word. You can get "tea", "eat", and then "ate". A number of onomatopoeia words do, but they tend to just become other onomatopoeia words, e.g. "OH" and "HO", "AH" and "HA", and the same goes for words that are all the same character, like "MM", "AA", "OO". Two words that have this property that are not onomatopoeia nor acronyms are "ON" and "NO". How many other words have this property of being always a valid word under string rotation? And do these word sets also exist in other languages (well, not counting ideograph-based written languages, since the basic written unit is a whole entire word)? I just thought of this again, because I was helping some undergrads with arrays and strings.
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Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=467pmIX-oZo Then read this: http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/076/0/8/marauder_shields__meet_shepard__s_last_foe__me3__by_koobismo-d4t2v53.jpg http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/076/f/9/marauder_shields_1__the_paragon_effect__me3__by_koobismo-d4t2xet.jpg http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/076/a/9/marauder_shields_2__the_mass_dilemma__me3__by_koobismo-d4t2y0u.jpg http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/076/a/c/marauder_shields_3__the_intervention__me3__by_koobismo-d4t2yke.jpg http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/077/e/6/marauder_shields_4__the_dna_fiasco__me3__by_koobismo-d4t5gby.jpg http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/077/1/5/marauder_shields_5__the_importance_of_london__me3__by_koobismo-d4t7eeb.jpg http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/078/3/a/marauder_shields_6__the_true_catalyst__me3__by_koobismo-d4tamm9.jpg http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/079/e/f/marauder_shields_7__the_cost_of_survival__me3__by_koobismo-d4tevtd.jpg http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/080/d/3/marauder_shields_8__the_beacon_of_hope__me3__by_koobismo-d4ti3nw.jpg
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I say Let's wait until the end of the month when BWE releases official statements on it. That said, I also think it's kind of ridiculous to say that no decisions matter because there is a 3 button choice at the end; for one, you don't even get 3 buttons if you don't have enough lolstatslol, but the entire game leading up to it is full of reflections of things you did in previous games which also affect the lolstatslol. If a bunch of Fallout 2 epilogue screens would suddenly have "made your decisions matter", then that's kind of loltastic. "Making your decisions matter" vs. "this ending is lolwhut" are two different things.